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Order of Business (3 Feb 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: It is a promise of a different kind for the unfortunate staff of all these agencies; it is a promise from the Government that their pay will be cut. I want the Taoiseach to admit this is what it amounts to. On my second question, yesterday, I asked the Taoiseach and he finally admitted that the number of senior public servants who were being treated more favourably than every other public...

Order of Business (3 Feb 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: It is going up every day.

Order of Business (3 Feb 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: I appreciate the Taoiseach was busy with the parliamentary party meeting yesterday——

Order of Business (3 Feb 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: I am puzzled about this issue of the costs——

Order of Business (3 Feb 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: When I asked this question before, the Taoiseach told the House that the Minister for Finance had drawn his attention to this. I cannot understand why the Taoiseach would not have asked the Minister for Finance what this decision was going to cost. Second, it would appear now from his answer that none of the reluctant seconders to the motion asked about the cost of it at yesterday's...

Order of Business (3 Feb 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: That would replace all the special needs classes——

Leaders' Questions (3 Feb 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: The Taoiseach does not seem to get it. Ever since the budget, one cannot turn a radio or television or open a newspaper but there is somebody from Fianna Fáil telling us that we have turned the corner and that recovery is about to happen. I wish that were the case but there is little sign of it. Yesterday's Exchequer figures do not show many signs of recovery, even though they were for the...

Leaders' Questions (3 Feb 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: No new projects.

Leaders' Questions (3 Feb 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: That is abracadabra economics.

Leaders' Questions (3 Feb 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: The Taoiseach seems to think he can wish away the number of people who are out of work because of the number of days and so on they are on the live register. If he wants to get into the figures, there are also people who are unemployed but not on the live register because they no longer receive benefits and they are no longer reflected in the figures. The reality is the number of people out...

Leaders' Questions (3 Feb 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: It is easy for them to laugh when they could not provide a seconder for an obvious motion to deal with a simple issue. The Government has looked after bankers, builders and developers.

Leaders' Questions (3 Feb 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: It has looked after the better off and it has ignored, run away from, neglected and abandoned——

Leaders' Questions (3 Feb 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: ——those who are out of work and who need some hope.

Northern Ireland Issues. (3 Feb 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: Question 10: To ask the Taoiseach the matters discussed with the British Prime Minister on the margins of the Copenhagen summit; if he will give his assessment of the situation in Northern Ireland following this meeting; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48558/09]

Northern Ireland Issues. (3 Feb 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: Question 13: To ask the Taoiseach if he will make a statement on his most recent contacts with the political parties in Northern Ireland. [1277/10]

Northern Ireland Issues. (3 Feb 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: Question 14: To ask the Taoiseach when he next expects to meet the Northern Ireland First Minister; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1278/10]

Northern Ireland Issues. (3 Feb 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: Question 15: To ask the Taoiseach the contacts he has had with the Acting First Minister in Northern Ireland since her appointment on 11 January 2010; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1467/10]

Northern Ireland Issues. (3 Feb 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: Question 16: To ask the Taoiseach if he will make a statement on his recent contacts with the British Prime Minister regarding the situation in Northern Ireland; and if he has plans for a meeting with the Prime Minister; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1468/10]

Northern Ireland Issues. (3 Feb 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: Question 17: To ask the Taoiseach if he will make a statement on the outcome of his meeting in London on 14 January 2010 with the British Prime Minister. [1584/10]

Social Partnership. (2 Feb 2010)

Eamon Gilmore: Question 6: To ask the Taoiseach his plans to meet the social partners; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48419/09]